Here’s a little quiz to test your movie knowledge ahead of the Oscars on tonight. Can you name these Best Picture winners based on their plotlines? (Answers at the end.) (Bonus points and immense respect if you can remember what year each movie was made.)
I haven’t been to a movie theater since 2019. So far, no new movies have been worth the risk to my health (COVID) or my wallet ($15 tub of popcorn). I’m hoping maybe one of this summer’s blockbusters might lure me out of my cave:
Some of Aimee Poe’s favorite childhood memories are the many times she and her family would make a big bowl of popcorn and snuggle on the couch to watch movies. It’s one of the reasons why she loves movies today. “Movies take me into a totally different world,” she said. “I’m transported som…
Deja Mitchell couldn’t take being cooped up anymore.
Friday marked a week since the AmStar movie theater at the Quintard Mall in Oxford reopened to the public.
A trailer for “The Devil All the Time,” a Netflix production partially filmed in Anniston and Jacksonville last year, was released today ahead of the film’s debut next month.
Last week, Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Partners announced that it will develop “Miss Macy,” a film that follows two Anniston women through a real-life 1971 trip to New York City that landed the younger of the two a modeling career.
Now that Gov. Kay Ivey has allowed movie theaters to reopen, the Amstar 12 theater at Quintard Mall in Oxford is tiptoeing back into business, offering private screenings of classic movies.
It’s a challenge to find new ways each year to tell the timeless story of Christ’s birth. But through the skill of singers and instrumentalists performing time-honored and new compositions, it’s possible to experience anew the wonder of Christmas.
Alex McFry never imagined showing a film at an international film festival, especially one whose main character was a reflection of himself.
“Bama” is a parody trailer of the Oscar-nominated movie — but with an Alabama twist
In the past year since her feature film “Best Mom” premiered, former Anniston resident Meg Weidner has been on an emotional roller coaster. “I probably need to make a playbook about what to do, and what not to do, for the next go-around,” she said. “In order to minimize the stress and maximi…
Too often in slasher movies, it’s the masked maniac who gets all the love. Not so for "Halloween's" Laurie Strode.
The 20th annual Sidewalk Film Festival begins tonight. The event brings thousands of cinephiles to Birmingham’s theater district to watch hundreds of independent films. For a complete schedule and ticket info, visit sidewalkfest.com.
Although Shane Ogle has loved movies since he was a kid, he didn’t come to fully appreciate independent films until he was in high school. “I loved going to the video store and picking out something unusual,” he said. “Something I had never heard of before.”
Five years ago, my grandson, Timmy, was born during Holy Week. When he turned 3, his birthday fell on Easter Sunday. I’m guessing that will happen a lot throughout his life.
When I first heard about MoviePass, it sounded too good to be true.
Jacksonville’s Longleaf Studios will host the third of six movie screenings Thursday as part of a Southern film circuit.
icki Dickoff’s film about exonerated death row inmates screened at Birmingham’s Sidewalk Film Festival on Saturday.
Birmingham’s theater district will soon host screenings of more than 200 movies as part of the 19th annual Sidewalk Film Festival.
Lauren Burney loves movies and freely admits to having an obsession with the Academy Awards.
The nine Oscar Best Picture nominees will be shown Feb. 17-23 at staggered times.
In a dismal capper to a dreadful year of gifted people dying before their time, Carrie Fisher died Tuesday at age 60, following a heart attack the actress and writer suffered on a plane from London to Los Angeles on Dec. 23.There are many reasons to mourn Fisher, who had come to seem indestr…
Brett Buckner, self-proclaimed connoisseur of horror, will watch 31 horror movies in 31 days.
